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America’s British population has taken to the web to voice its displeasure at news that U.S. candy giant Hershey has successfully blocked our much loved U.K.-produced chocolate from being exported to the land of the free.

Anglo For Your Ear: Judas Priest’s “Breaking the Law”

Continuing with our Pride Week theme, I bring you the man who exposed millions of metalheads to gay leather-fetish culture: Rob Halford, the fierce frontman of Judas Priest. The band itself was a huge crossover success for heavy metal: songs like 1980’s “Breaking the Law” made them rock radio mainstays. Halford’s coming out eighteen years later was met with a collective shrug from the metal community, an ideal response if you ask me.

Kevin Wicks

Kevin Wicks founded BBCAmerica.com's Anglophenia blog back in 2005 and has been translating British culture for an American audience ever since. While not British himself - he was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri - he once received inordinate hospitality in London for sharing the name of a dead but beloved EastEnders character. His Anglophilia stems from a high school love of Morrissey, whom he calls his "gateway drug" into British culture.

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America’s British population has taken to the web to voice its displeasure at news that U.S. candy giant Hershey has successfully blocked our much loved U.K.-produced chocolate from being exported to the land of the free.